Product Description

The 2013 Les Paul Premium offers modern features for the modern player while maintaining incredible, authentic Gibson feel and tone. Featuring a AAAA Flame Maple Top, Modern weight relief, and Burst Bucker Pro pickups with coil tapping and the ability to reverse polarity on the rear pickup for incredible single coil tones. A Les Paul for the modern player, the Les Paul Premium has incredible features with the Les Paul feel and tone you know and love.

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Got a great price on this for end of year closeout. 40% off the normal price. This guitar is absolutely beautiful! I love the feel of the neck! It play so smooth, has awesome tone, and did I mention It is beautiful! This is my first real Gibson guitar and I am not disappointed. I have a bunch of high end Epiphone models but this is the one I now pick up. Everytime I pick up this thing I have to turn it over and over to look at it. The mahogany on the back and the neck looks like a high end coffee table. The finish is exceptional. The AAAA Top is beautifully finished and looks awesome. I play this through an Vox AC30CCH and Vox 4x12 cabinet and also a Fender Blues Deville 4x10. The tone through both is exceptional. I played my Epiphone Les Paul Ultra Pro, my Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty, and this Gibson Standard back to back to back to see if there is any tonal difference. Although there is not much difference in the tonal quality (since they all use the same Burstbuckers), the feel of the neck is quite different and I like the feel of the Gibson over the Epiphones. I would recommend this guitar to any and all. I have not used the Manfacturer Support so it does not get a high rating, but I am sure that Gibson will stand behind their product.

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first gibson i purchased and was grateful to zz sounds for making it happenwith the payment plan. guitar was on sale for $2200, so i decided to grabthe opportunity. everything i dreamt and hoped for were in this premium standardLP. just need to get comfortable with its lightweight because its chambered. everything is great from electronics to hardware. a little residue on the fretboard but once i change the strings, i believe it will come off once wiped.

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